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- From: aviva@excelan (Aviva Garrett)
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- Subject: RECIPE: spanakopita
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- Date: 3 Aug 86 07:23:04 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SPANAKOPITA MV "22 Dec 83" 1986
- .RZ "SPANAKOPITA" "Greek spinach and cheese pie"
- This recipe is from the \fIVegetarian Epicure\fR by Anna Thomas.
- It takes lots of time to make, but is well worth it.
- .IH "serves 8"
- .IG "2 lbs" "fresh spinach" "1 kg"
- .IG "1 lb" "filo dough" "500 g"
- .IG "\(12 lb" "feta cheese" "250 g"
- .IG "7" "eggs"
- .IG "1" "onion,"
- diced
- .PH
-
- .SK 1
- Dice the onion and saut\z\(aae it until golden brown.
- .SK 2
- While the onion is cooking, wash the spinach.
- Put it in a bowl and rub lots of salt into it.
- Let the spinach/salt sit for 15 minutes.
- This is meant to reduce the volume of spinach.
- An alternative to this is to barely steam the spinach (30\-60 seconds).
- .SK 3
- Beat the eggs.
- Crumble the feta cheese and add to the eggs.
- Note that feta cheese is fairly salty.
- You can replace half or all of it with ricotta cheese.
- .SK 4
- Rinse all the salt out of the spinach.
- Add it and the onions to the eggs/cheese and mix.
- Also add some spices.
- The original recipes calls for salt, pepper, and oregano.
- I use basil.
- .SK 5
- Melt some butter
- (at least
- .AB "2 oz" "60 g" ".)"
- .SK 6
- Butter the bottom of a
- .AB "9\(13 inch" "22\(33 cm"
- baking dish.
- Lay the filo down one layer at a time, brushing butter on each layer.
- Turn each successive layer a little so they are not all piled directly
- on top of each other.
- The filo will hang over the sides of the dish.
- Continue until you have 3\-5 sheets of filo left.
- .SK 7
- Pour the filling into the filo.
- .SK 8
- Fold the filo that hangs over the side over the filling.
- Place the last pieces of filo on top, buttering each as you go.
- Trim off the filo that hangs over the edge of the dish.
- These last pieces serve to cover the filling.
- .SK 9
- Make two or three slits with a knife in the top layers of filo
- that go all the way down to the filling.
- .SK 10
- Bake at
- .TE 375 190
- for 50 minutes.
- .NX
- .PP
- You can vary the filling to suit your tastes.
- We've thought of adding mushrooms.
- .PP
- My husband complains about how thick and hard to cut the bottom of the
- spanakopita is.
- His suggestions (none of which I've tried) include using more butter,
- and alternating laters of filo and filling.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- moderate.
- .I Time:
- 45 minutes preparation, 1 hour cooking.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Aviva Garrett
- Excelan, Inc., San Jose, CA
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